The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-11-22

Smelling corn at the time, and were slow about
getting there, and when he got there Mr..
Burgey was dying.
AdeIine Williams, colored. said Mrs. Burgy
came into the room little before breakfast
time to help her fix biscuits for Burgy's break
fast, When breakfast was ready ,Adeline went
INTO his room and asked him how he felt and
he said he felt very badly. She saw him no
more until Mrs. Burgy ran out after the
pistol shot. and called for her,and said: "Billy
is dead. Come and help me-" When she
came in she says he was lying on his back ON
the lounge, and made three long gasps. She
then left the room.
Vic Holson. colored, was in the kitchen when
She heard the alarm and when she saw the fire
III the room thought it was cigar, and put it
out.
DIR. NoSval Burg was at his mill, saving
lumber, Al miles below Burgys place when a
runner came and said Come at once, Mr..
Burgy was bad Off" He told the runner to go
and hitch up the horse, and while the horse
being hitched, a second runner came, and he
Went at once. When he got there he found
Burgy lying on the lounge at full length. with
am improved Smith and Wesson revolver lying
at his side. He picked up the pistol, and
found there was but one chamber unloaded.
lie then laid 1t down, exactly where it was ly-
ing, where it remained until the coroner came.
This evidence was thought conclusive by the
Jury, but they were not satisfied until DR.. Van
Nalkenberg made an examination of the body.
1t was stripped in the presence of the iury,and
q thorough examination made. 1t was found
that the ball entered between the fourth and
fifth ribs on the right side, and came out Just
above the second rib on the left side, inhicting
mortal wound. Powder marks were plainly
visible around the dark hole where the bullet
entered.
After examination the jury brought in the
following verdict:
We the jury empanelled in the case,of Burgy W.
L., deceased; ind he came to his death from pistol
shot wound, inflicted by his own hand
REGARDED
and was temperate man. About eighteen
years ago he killed Rcdding Mincey.at Echee-
conee bridge Burgy was tried for the killing
of Mincoy, and was cleared on the ground of
lustitiable homicide. About two years after
the trial. Mmcey's sons ambushed Burgy as he
was riding along the road in his buggy with
his wife, and he was badly shot in the
back. The cause of the difficulty between
Burgy and the elder Mincey was, as he claim
ed, that Mincey loaned Burgy several hundred
dollars, and failed TO pay him, Burgy taking
the homestead. One day Mincey met Burgy
as he was riding in his buggy on the road and
Mlncey told BurSy ne was going to take the
turnout in payment of the debt Burgy owed
him, and commenced to cut the horse loose
from the harness, whereupon Burgy jumped
out of the buggy and attacked Mincey with %
knife, killing him.
Burgy married twice. His first vito was
much older than he and after her death he
married again. Before the death of his first
wife he had failed in money matters, and after
his second marriage the father of his wife
"set him up on his feet" again, and bought the
plantation where no was living
at the time of his DEATH He was
married the second time about the breaking
out of the war, and had no children. BY
his first wife, he had two children, both of
whom are dead. Mrs. Burgy is almost frantic
with grief and it was all the family could do
to keep he. from committing suicide. The
funeral occurs tomorrow.
MACON, Ga, November 19.-[ Especial LIN
talking with several prominent business men
of the city, today your correspondent was in
formed that the cause of w. L. Burgys suicide
was evidently financial embarrassment. 1t
is said that he had claims against the railroad
company aggregating in the neighborhood of
ten thousand dollars. He went to Atlanta
Tuesday to try to arrange matters, and failing,
he fell into fit of dependency which caused
him to commit the rash act.
M. Nussbaum, prominent wholesale mer-
chant, said today that Burgy paid him bill
of five hundred dollars last week. lie said
that Mr.. Burgy was one of the most honest
and upright customers he had ever had. Other
merchants with whom he has had dealing ex-
pressed themselves in similar manner. The
remains will be carried to Houston county for
burial, tomorrow.